Tuesday, 24 April 2018

MEC engages with health care workers


Kimberly- Nothern Cape’s department of Health convened a two day ministerial internal stakeholder consultation session with the objective of improving the delivery of health care services to communities. MEC for Health, Ms. Fufe Makatong addressed a two (2) day session organised to strengthen the provincial healthcare system that will in turn respond positively towards achieving the 2018/19 Departmental Annual Performance Plan (APP) targets. Speaking to The Informer, Communications officer at the Department Lebogang Majaha said: “This strategic session comes two weeks after MEC Makatong criss-crossed the province, visiting district offices and healthcare facilities with the purpose of creating different platforms for staff and health stakeholders to raise their challenges and also propose possible solutions that will assist towards improving the delivery of healthcare services to communities.” Majaha further stated that the two (2) day Ministerial Internal Stakeholder Consultation Session was premised on the following important thrusts; to assess the state of readiness of the department to implement 2018/19 budgets in line with the Annual Performance Plan.

Strengthening financial planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as ensuring rational budget allocation to programmes, hospitals, districts and facilities. Additionally, it also seeks to determine the readiness to implement and monitor budgets for non-negotiability at facility level as well as promoting forward planning through procurement plans. Not excluding the evaluation of credibility of the budget allocations both the equitable share and conditional grants and to provide strategies that seeks to reduce the ever growing accruals in health departments. This process, as Majaha elaborates also seeks to deal with administrative inefficiencies and poor service delivery of provincial importance in health which has emerged in the recent past all over the media that affects communities. “MEC re-emphasized a drastic need to overhaul management of the department before the end of the current financial year and she firmly believes that this process will assist towards improving the health outcomes and reposition the administration,” said Majaha
Source: Department of health communication



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